The 11th New York Film Festival took place September 28 – October 13, 1973 at Film at Lincoln Center.

Main Slate

Day for Night (François Truffaut) with Pierre (Dominique Cheminal) (Opening Night)
Badlands (Terrence Malick) with Frank Film (Frank Mouris) (Closing Night)
Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky)
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) with The Artichoke (Michel Clarence)
Distant Thunder (Satyajit Ray) with Alphon in Wonderland (Maxim Ferrier and Gerald Poussin) and Mediana (Scott Bartlett)
A Doll’s House (Joseph Losey) with Sandman (Eliot Noyes Jr.) and When Roobarb Made a Spike (Bob Godfrey)
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (Fritz Lang) (Retrospective selection)
History Lessons with Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s “Accompaniment to a Cinematographic Scene” (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
Illumination (Krzysztof Zanussi) with Pulcinella (Giulio Gianini and Emanuele Luzzati) and For a Few Performances Only (Theodor Kalomirakis)
Israel Why (Claude Lanzmann)
Just Before Nightfall (Claude Chabrol) with Butterfly † 1975 (Peter Brouwer) and Colter’s Hell (Robin Lehman)
Kid Blue (James Frawley) with Pin Ball Wizard (Rod McCall)
Land of Silence and Darkness (Werner Herzog) with The Train That Never Stopped (Chris Marker/SLON)
Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese) with Background (Carmen D’Avino)
The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache)
La Rupture (Claude Chabrol) with Dans la vie (Pierre Veilleux)
Réjeanne Padovani (Denys Arcand) with Australian History (Bruce Petty)
Return (Gianni Amico) with Opera, Italy (Bruno Bozzetto) and Coming On (Doe Mayer)

NYFF11 POSTER BY NIKI DE SAINT PHALLE